THE PANORAMA : 04

1. The annual Oscar awards for excellence in different facets of cinema are awarded by the

1. American Film Association 2. New York Academy of Films

3. US Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 4. All-US Film Critics Association

2. If the President of India wishes to resign, he should address his resignation letter to the

1. Prime Minister 2. Vice-President 3. Chief Justice of India 4.

Speaker of the Lok Sabha

3. If a feather and a steel ball of equal mass are dropped from a height simultaneously and there is
complete vacuum all round,

1. The feather will touch the ground earlier 2. The ball will touch the ground earlier

3. The feather will touch the g\ound simultaneously 4. It is difficult to predict what will
happen

4. Which of the following is a term not connected with stock exchanges in India?

1. SEBI 2. Badla 3. Hawala 4. Nifty

5. The fifth pay commission set up by the central government is headed by

1. Mr. Justice S.R. Pandian 2. Justice P.N. Kania 3. Justice Bachawat 4. Justice P.N.
Bhawati

6. Mahatma Gandhi’s first experiment with “Satyagraha” took place in

1. Champaran 2. South Africa 3. Ahmedabad 4. Kheda

7. Who among the following is considered to be the “Bard of Avon”?

1. Geoffrey Chaucer 2. Lord Byron 3. Keats 4. William Shakespeare

 
8. Consider the following political parties:

a. Revolutionary Socialist party b. Forward Bloc c. Muslim League d. Akali Dal

1. a and b 2. c and d 3. a, b and d 4. None of

these

9. Which of the following terms is not connected with the Internet?

1. HTTP 2. Vortal 3. Hortal 4. TTML

10. The United Nations High Commission for Human Rights is situated at

1. Washington D.C . 2. New York 3. Geneva 4. Rome

11. The doldrums are

1. Equatorial low pressure belts 2. Polar low-pressure belts

3. Polar high pressure belts 4. Equatorial high pressure belts

12. The famous Borobudur temple is in

1. Java 2. Thailand 3. Surinam 4. Cambodia

13. Who among the following kings of Delhi was famous for his market reforms?

1. Akbar 2. Allaudin Khilji 3. Mohd. Tughlaq 4. Malik

Kafur

14. Identify the incorrect pair:

1. S. Chandershekhar : Physics 2. A.P.J. Abul Kalam : Missile Technology

3. Jagdish Chander Bose : Physiology 4. Birbal Sawhni : Chemistry

15. Who was the Prime Minister of England at the time of India’s Independence?

1. Winston Churchill 2. Lord Mountbatten 3. Alfred Powell 4. Clement Atlee

 

16. “His theory regarding the formation of stars was rejected outright when made public for the first
time, he, however was convinced of its truth and struggled for half a century to prove his point,
culminating in worldwide acceptance and a rightly-deserved Nobel Prize for Physics____”. The scientist
referred to above is most probably

1. Fred Hoyle 2. S. Chandershekhar 3. Albert Einstein 4. Jayant

Narlikar

17. The National Environmental Engineering Research Institute is located at

1. Nagpur 2. Jamshedpur 3. Delhi 4. Calcutta

18. The “sea of tranquility” is on the

1. Jupiter 2. Moon 3. Sun 4.

Pacific ocean

19. “Cybernetics” is concerned with

1. Structure of the cell 2. Advanced electronics

3. Space flights 4. Communication and control in machines

20. Who among the following has won the coveted “Bookers’ Booker” Prize?

1. Reddy Doyle 2. Salman Rushdie 3. Gita Hariharan 4. Mulk

Raj Anand

21. The words “socialist, secular” were added to the Preamble to the Indian Constitution vide

1. The 44th amendment 2. The 61st amendment 3. The 42nd amendment 4. The 59th
amendment

22. The Directive Principles of State policy are contained in part ____of the Constitution and are _____

1. III, non – justiciable 2. III, justiciable 3. IV, non-justiciable 4. IV, justicible

23. India is not a member of

1. ASEAN 2. SAARC 3. G-8 4. Both 1 and 3

 

24. Who is known as the greatest dramatist in Sanskrit after Kalidasa?

1. Bhavbhuti 2. Shudraka 3. Kalhana 4. Panini

25. Who was the first to address M.K Gandhi as the “Father of the Nation”?

1. J.L. Nehru 2. V.B. Patel 3. Subhas Bose 4. C.R. Dass

26. God’s Own Country, this is how _______ is called otherwise

1. Kerala 2. J & K 3. Kullu 4. Himachal

Pradesh

27. A plebiscite means

1. A city housing the Prisoners of War 2. A temporary state of

emergency

3. A referendum giving the people a right to sell-determination 4. A secret group of military

officers

28. Omega is a well-known brand of

1. Watches 2. Tyres 3. Automobiles 4. Safety razors

29. The first-ever transgenic goat has been created in

1. Scotland 2. The USA 3. China 4. Karnal

30. Anna Kerennina is a world-famous creation by

1. F. Dostovsky 2. L. Tolstoy 3. Maxim Gorky 4. None of

these

31. The President may refer a matter to the Supreme Court for its opinion thereon. This provision is
contained in

1. Article 75 of the Constitution 2. Article 78 of the Constitution

 3. Article 143 of the Constitution 4. Article 58 of the Constitution

32. “Ai Mere Watan Ke Logo, Zara_______” the soul-stirring lyric was penned by

1. Shailendra 2. Kavi Pradeep 3. Yogesh 4. Gopal Das ‘Neeraj’

33. The material most commonly used for outer coating in case of non-stick materials is

1. P.V.C. 2. Teflon 3. Freon 4. An

alloy of chromium, iron and manganese

34. Which ancient Indian King has been depicted playing the veena on his coins?

1. Chandragupta 2. Skandgupta 3. Samudragupta 4.

Chandragupta II

35. The value of the Indian rupee is officially expressed in terms of

1. Gold 2. Pound sterling 3. US Dollar 4. A basket of

currencies

36. The only Indian P.M. who never faced the Loksabha was

1. Rajeev Gandhi 2. Gulzari Lal Nanda 3. Charan Singh 4. A.B.

Vajpayee

37. How many countries form the Commonwealth of Independent States?

1. 12 2. 51 3. 15 4. 18

38. A rolling plan means a

1. Five-year plan 2. Year-to-year plan 3. Long-term plan 4. No

definite plan

39. The present Christian calendar is based on the system given by

1. St. Augustus 2. Samudragupta 3. Saka 4. Pope

Gregory

 
40. Which of the following are known as the blue mountains?

1. The Himalayas 2. The Satpuras 3. The Nilgiris 4. The Aravallis

41. The social reformer who pressed for English as a medium of education in India was

1. Ishwar Chander Vidyasagar 2. Ram Mohan Roy 3. Jyotiba Phule 4. Swami

Vivekanand

42. JAVA is

1. A computer language 2. A molecule 3. A supercomputer 4. The codename for

US nuclear programme
 

43. The Elysium is the official residence of the ________ P.M/President

1. British 2. American 3. Russian 4. French

44. The Supreme Court Judges retire at the age of

1. 60 years 2. 62 years 3. 65 years 4. 58 years

45. “The City of Suicides” is an epithet currently being applied to

1. Bangalore 2. Bombay 3. Calcutta 4. Delhi

46. Buddhism got divided into two sects, namely

1. Diagambara and Shwetmbara 2. Nilambar and Pitambra 3. Mahayna and Hinayana 4. None
of these

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